Quotes About Harm

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Malice drinks one half of its own poison.

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

But why? Why did you do the evil things you did?' Billy asks suddenly. 'Ah, because I could not imagine consequences,' the Professor says. 'To do harm, to live through evil, is to align oneself with chaos. Now it is the same chaos which is slowly destroying me.

As Robert Hare, the world's leading expert on psychopathy has stated, psychopaths are "intra-species predators." They have the "capacity to do great harm, repeatedly, without remorse.

So though we should maintain adequate intake of DHA, B12, zinc, iodine, and Vitamin D, we should also be aware that taking too much can also be harmful.

he could never understand the enjoyment some people got from hurting others. And that, he told Anshel, applied to chickens too.

A man who flatterers his neighbor, spreads a net for his feet

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best

One fake friend can do more harm than five enemies.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

The Worst harm comes from where you lastly expect it. So forget about your enemies and think what your friends will do.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

Done to death by slanderous tongue

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

If I am peaceful…is not peace,/is getting used to harm.

An arrow shot into the sea, it can hurt no one.

Sound Protestant and Evangelical doctrine is useless — if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse then useless; it does positive harm. It is despised by keen-sighted and shrewd men of the world, as an unreal and hollow thing, and brings religion into contempt.

Once objective duty, goodness, and virtue were abandoned under the guise of scientism and secularism, the only moral map that could replace objective morality is what Daniel Callahan has called minimalistic ethics —anything is morally permissible provided only that you do not harm someone else.

No god should ever be invoked to inflict harm.

hate harms no one so much as the one who hates. Do not grant even the worst person such a victory over you.

But people can hurt other people or they can help other people, and I don't want to be someone who hurts.

Volenti non fit injuria. To a willing person, no injury is done.

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.